Biometric Security Measures
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Biometric Security Measures
Computer security is always a concern for people who store sensitive personal information like bank statements and appointment calendars on their PC. In the past couple of years biometric fingerprint scanners have made their way onto laptops as an added security measure. This way if you lose your laptop someone cannot guess your password. Only your fingerprint will boot the machine up.
This feature has found its way onto numerous computer products besides the notebooks themselves. Now you can find external hard drives as well as USB flash drives that have biometric fingerprint security built into them.
This is a good way of safeguarding your system if you have any sensitive personal information on your hard drive or flash drive that you do not want shared with others. It can also serve as a deterrent of theft if someone knows they will not be able to access the computer or drive even if they were able to steal it.
Biometric safeguards are gaining a lot of popularity among business workers and college students in big cities or people who find themselves in large crowds regularly. This is where a lot of theft takes place, but maybe these new security measures can change that.
